[twitter-dev] Source parameter only available through oauth - misses a use case
Hi, the developer wiki mentions that the source parameter is no longer recommended, because using oauth, twitter can already know the source of messages. However, there are a few use case scenario's that are limited if source is only available through oauth. Oauth is all about delegated authentication. It's about the user granting access to his resources to a service. There are services out there that do not use the user's credentials at all, but use their own account. E.g. I built flackr.net, and it logs in with its own @flackr account to follow its own timeline and aggregate news on a website. I don't need user's credentials at all for that. The Flackr backend is autonomous and runs on a server that has no web frontend, it just fetches data and processes it. It does send out tweets when it has aggregated something interesting. If I were to use oauth in this scenario I would have to build in full oauth support in my backend script, only to login once with my own account to grant myself access. Since this is not about delegated access, I don't need oauth and can authenticate against twitter directly. This is a perfectly good use case scenario, and the source parameter would have to stay in order to support this use case scenario while still providing a different source.
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Background
Visit twitterbackgrounds.com On Sep 13, 7:47 pm, shapper mdmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I need to create a custom Twitter background. What are the dimensions for it and the allowed maximum size or the size you advice? Does the background repeats horizontal and vertically? What are the options? Thanks, Miguel
[twitter-dev] Re: Source parameter only available through oauth - misses a use case
With all the freely available examples, and all the freely available documentation and support available through oauth.net, what's stopping you from cranking out an OAuth client implementation in 2 hours? OAuth helps prevent, or at least make obvious for the time being, spammers. HTTP Basic Auth has no value here. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Ivo i...@epointment.com wrote: Hi, the developer wiki mentions that the source parameter is no longer recommended, because using oauth, twitter can already know the source of messages. However, there are a few use case scenario's that are limited if source is only available through oauth. Oauth is all about delegated authentication. It's about the user granting access to his resources to a service. There are services out there that do not use the user's credentials at all, but use their own account. E.g. I built flackr.net, and it logs in with its own @flackr account to follow its own timeline and aggregate news on a website. I don't need user's credentials at all for that. The Flackr backend is autonomous and runs on a server that has no web frontend, it just fetches data and processes it. It does send out tweets when it has aggregated something interesting. If I were to use oauth in this scenario I would have to build in full oauth support in my backend script, only to login once with my own account to grant myself access. Since this is not about delegated access, I don't need oauth and can authenticate against twitter directly. This is a perfectly good use case scenario, and the source parameter would have to stay in order to support this use case scenario while still providing a different source.
[twitter-dev] Re: Paging STILL broken
That's awesome, Ryan, thanks. Can I get an ETA on a fix please? This is extremely important to my business, I need to know when I can begin selling. This bug has caused a delay, because I can't sell a broken product, even if it is Twitter's bug and not my own. So... ETA?? Thanks! On Sep 13, 5:49 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Waldron, Thanks for the email. I am working with our team internally to track down the issue and figure out how to resolve it. I will get back to you with an update shortly, but know that we are listening and working on this. Best, Ryan On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Waldron Faulkner waldronfaulk...@gmail.com wrote: PLEASE, can someone on the API team let us know when the paging bug(s) with followers/ids (and friends/ids) will be addressed? There have been problems with it for weeks, but now it's just downright broken. We can't get lists of followers for users with large numbers of followers. That's a basic, fundamental API feature that's just BROKEN. There's a reproduced, accepted, high priority bug against this issue in the issues area, starred by many, and we've had neither a fix, nor a comment as to whether it's even being addressed. I need to know that I can expect problems with the platform's basic functionality to be resolved within a reasonable time-frame. This is killing my business development efforts. If Twitter wants people to build businesses on this platform, they HAVE to support it. PLEASE guys, give us something. Don't make me throw away months of work and go focus on something unrelated to Twitter.
[twitter-dev] Re: Can the Twitter API call me?
in particular: X-Twittersenderid: X-Twittersenderscreenname: Nigel http://tweet.linkky.com bob.hitching wrote: some events like 'new follower' generate an email message - you can build a listener to react to those emails. there's even some useful twitter headers included so you don't have to parse the message body. Bob On Sep 12, 1:24 am, Duncan dun...@therecoveryplace.net wrote: Does Twitter have something in place where i can build a litener app that Twitter can HTTP/POST to when a new follower follows me or someone sends me a direct message, etc? Duncan
[twitter-dev] Re: Geocoded OR search broken?
Hey Chad, Thanks for the reply, and I can understand how tricky that must be. It's kind of curious though--at some point over the weekend, several more (but still not all) of our tweets were indexed and searchable, yet our live tweets still aren't. This at least leads me to believe that our account wasn't banned for some reason, so that's a relief! Still odd that over the weekend, even our old tweets were and are only partially searchable...
[twitter-dev] Re: whitelisting q
My company is about to launch our app, and need to submit it for whitelisting. The WL request form says the app needs to be in production, but not sure what that means. Can anyone tell me? Its currently being tested, and will launch on Friday of this week, most likely. Does that qualify as in production? Just trying to anticipate massive growth, and start process sooner rather than later : ) Dale On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:05 AM, developar develo...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same question :) On Aug 28, 8:08 pm, Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com wrote: Hi all, I'm hopeful that someone on-list can answer this as I have been over the faqs and am still not sure I understand. Whitelistinggives me more API calls (20,000 vs 150 per hour) but still only 1000 status updates per day, correct? I'm developing a bot that responds to updates with a certain hashtag and am concerned that if there are more than 1000 updates per day with that hashtag that I will only be able to respond to the first thousand. What's the proper thing to do in that case, split it among several different accounts? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com,www.cheek.com twitter:http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Re: Paging STILL broken
Waldron, I wish I had an exact ETA for you, but unfortunately these types of issues are never simple. As soon as we can identify exactly what is causing the problem we should be able to know when it can be resolved. I will update you with an ETA as soon as we can. Thanks, rs On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Waldron Faulkner waldronfaulk...@gmail.com wrote: That's awesome, Ryan, thanks. Can I get an ETA on a fix please? This is extremely important to my business, I need to know when I can begin selling. This bug has caused a delay, because I can't sell a broken product, even if it is Twitter's bug and not my own. So... ETA?? Thanks! On Sep 13, 5:49 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: Waldron, Thanks for the email. I am working with our team internally to track down the issue and figure out how to resolve it. I will get back to you with an update shortly, but know that we are listening and working on this. Best, Ryan On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Waldron Faulkner waldronfaulk...@gmail.com wrote: PLEASE, can someone on the API team let us know when the paging bug(s) with followers/ids (and friends/ids) will be addressed? There have been problems with it for weeks, but now it's just downright broken. We can't get lists of followers for users with large numbers of followers. That's a basic, fundamental API feature that's just BROKEN. There's a reproduced, accepted, high priority bug against this issue in the issues area, starred by many, and we've had neither a fix, nor a comment as to whether it's even being addressed. I need to know that I can expect problems with the platform's basic functionality to be resolved within a reasonable time-frame. This is killing my business development efforts. If Twitter wants people to build businesses on this platform, they HAVE to support it. PLEASE guys, give us something. Don't make me throw away months of work and go focus on something unrelated to Twitter.
[twitter-dev] Mood flagging in general search
So I see that the search API lets me find results based on happy/sad moods. However, is there anyway to do a general keyword search and have the results flagged by Twitter? I.e., each result would have a flag if it would have been returned on a positive/negative search. My thinking is - I want to search for X and find all results, but I'd also like to know which ones Twitter considered as positive or negative. I could do another search and someone munge the results, but that seems wasteful network wise.
[twitter-dev] Re: Random 408 errors having been appearing the last 48 hours
Hi team, Any update on this? I filed a ticket for 408 code so that we can keep track of the issue easily. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1036 Thanks, On 9月12日, 午前2:40, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having this issue as well, and also getting some 405s, which I thought were long gone. On Sep 11, 9:44 am, Jeff Ayars je...@pelago.com wrote: We're using basic auth and having the problem so it's not OAuth related. IP ranges, accounts, curl -vvv and TCP dump of failures sent to a...@twitter yesterday. Seeing ~60% failures and 40% successes also. Haven't heard back from Twitter. Would love to hear something. JEff -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Roy Hooper Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:04 AM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Random 408 errors having been appearing the last 48 hours I'm still seeing this recurring problem. Are only oauth users experiencing this? If so, maybe its time for us to give up on OAuth? On Sep 9, 12:16 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Point your mobile device through a web proxy that you control. Monitor the traffic there with tcpdump. On Sep 9, 7:07 am, Naveen A knig...@gmail.com wrote: It might be useful if detailed (step by step) instructions of how to generate the debug information twitter needs to track down this HTTP data being returned on the API, I am not sure how much data you are getting but I would really like to provide as much as I possibly can and provide others with the tools to make providing this information as easily as possible. We unfortunately can't easily provide the necessary information as our application runs on a mobile device where we can not easily get the detailed information you require. I understand how to provide the ip address, and the verbose curl request.. Unclear what you are looking for when you are requesting a tcp dump.. I would be happy to attempt to generate this information if it will help expedite solving this problem.. On Sep 7, 10:06 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: If you are having connection problems like this, please send your IP address, account(s), a curl(1) -vvv trace, and a tcpdump of the failure to a...@twitter.com. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter inc. On Sep 7, 5:02 pm, fablau fabri...@virtualsheetmusic.com wrote: I am having the same issue, most of the times I cannot connect to Twitter, I get 408 error and the API is mostly unusable form my side. I am able to connect just a couple of times every 36-48 hours! Are we the only people having this issue? How that can be possible? Is there any way to contact Twitter folks about this issue? Are they aware of this? Any more thoughts and testimonials about this issue would be appreciated. Thank you for sharing. Best,
[twitter-dev] Re: graph API call returning 'This Method requires authentication'
Go to my site http://www.homesforholidays.eu/twitter.php, log in and you get the message, this message requires a get. Why I don't know, but if you go to twitter you are already logged in Nico. On 30 aug, 04:23, Pete Warden searchbrow...@gmail.com wrote: A late follow-up on this, but I'm hitting the same problem: - It's only happening with friends/ids.json, all other calls work - Bizarrely I can call it fine from command-line curl on the same machine, but using curl within PHP I get the error - I've tried rejigging my curl/php code to use the in-url syntax (eg someone:passw...@twitter... as the URL) rather than curl_setopt, with no luck The documentation seems to indicate this method doesn't even require authentication, so I'm left scratching my head. If I can create a minimal reproducible case, I'll file an issue, but for now I just want to document this for posterity. Pete On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:56 AM, developerinlondon ebilliona...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, For some reason I am getting the above error message returned for a specific ID only: curl -u username:password http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml?user_id=2064571515 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash request/friends/ids.xml?user_id=2064571515/request errorThis method requires authentication./error /hash Any other Twitter IDs it works fine and I get a list of IDs for them. Eg the following works: curl -u username:password http://twitter.com/friends/ids.xml?user_id=23943320 Any ideas what I need to be doing to fix this? The pattern seems to be always occuring when I try a UserID with 10 digits. Thanks, Nayeem- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven - - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -
[twitter-dev] Re: Random 408 errors having been appearing the last 48 hours
hi! we're actively working on this issue -- if you're personally experiencing this issue, it would be really helpful to get either a tcpdump of it occurring, or a curl -vvv simulating the issue. in lieu of those, you can also send: date/time that the error occurred; what API endpoints were being requested; source IP address (along with any useful information on your network -- behind a NAT? proxy?) feel free to send those directly to me. thanks! Hi team, Any update on this? I filed a ticket for 408 code so that we can keep track of the issue easily. http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1036 Thanks, On 9月12日, 午前2:40, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having this issue as well, and also getting some 405s, which I thought were long gone. On Sep 11, 9:44 am, Jeff Ayars je...@pelago.com wrote: We're using basic auth and having the problem so it's not OAuth related. IP ranges, accounts, curl -vvv and TCP dump of failures sent to a...@twitter yesterday. Seeing ~60% failures and 40% successes also. Haven't heard back from Twitter. Would love to hear something. JEff -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of Roy Hooper Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:04 AM To: Twitter Development Talk Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Random 408 errors having been appearing the last 48 hours I'm still seeing this recurring problem. Are only oauth users experiencing this? If so, maybe its time for us to give up on OAuth? On Sep 9, 12:16 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: Point your mobile device through a web proxy that you control. Monitor the traffic there with tcpdump. On Sep 9, 7:07 am, Naveen A knig...@gmail.com wrote: It might be useful if detailed (step by step) instructions of how to generate the debug information twitter needs to track down this HTTP data being returned on the API, I am not sure how much data you are getting but I would really like to provide as much as I possibly can and provide others with the tools to make providing this information as easily as possible. We unfortunately can't easily provide the necessary information as our application runs on a mobile device where we can not easily get the detailed information you require. I understand how to provide the ip address, and the verbose curl request.. Unclear what you are looking for when you are requesting a tcp dump.. I would be happy to attempt to generate this information if it will help expedite solving this problem.. On Sep 7, 10:06 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: If you are having connection problems like this, please send your IP address, account(s), a curl(1) -vvv trace, and a tcpdump of the failure to a...@twitter.com. -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter inc. On Sep 7, 5:02 pm, fablau fabri...@virtualsheetmusic.com wrote: I am having the same issue, most of the times I cannot connect to Twitter, I get 408 error and the API is mostly unusable form my side. I am able to connect just a couple of times every 36-48 hours! Are we the only people having this issue? How that can be possible? Is there any way to contact Twitter folks about this issue? Are they aware of this? Any more thoughts and testimonials about this issue would be appreciated. Thank you for sharing. Best, -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
[twitter-dev] Re: Source parameter only available through oauth - misses a use case
Hi, short answer: oauth is for delegated authentication; I'm using direct authentication of my own account. Both are valid use cases, so in my opinion the source parameter should continue to work for the second use case (I can't find a good reason to only support it for delegated authentication) Besides; all the examples you mention are for delegated authentication; it would be weird to have a headless system that is working as a service implement an oauth scheme. greetings, Ivo On Sep 14, 12:09 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: With all the freely available examples, and all the freely available documentation and support available through oauth.net, what's stopping you from cranking out an OAuth client implementation in 2 hours? OAuth helps prevent, or at least make obvious for the time being, spammers. HTTP Basic Auth has no value here. ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Ivo i...@epointment.com wrote: Hi, the developer wiki mentions that the source parameter is no longer recommended, because using oauth, twitter can already know the source of messages. However, there are a few use case scenario's that are limited if source is only available through oauth. Oauth is all about delegated authentication. It's about the user granting access to his resources to a service. There are services out there that do not use the user's credentials at all, but use their own account. E.g. I built flackr.net, and it logs in with its own @flackr account to follow its own timeline and aggregate news on a website. I don't need user's credentials at all for that. The Flackr backend is autonomous and runs on a server that has no web frontend, it just fetches data and processes it. It does send out tweets when it has aggregated something interesting. If I were to use oauth in this scenario I would have to build in full oauth support in my backend script, only to login once with my own account to grant myself access. Since this is not about delegated access, I don't need oauth and can authenticate against twitter directly. This is a perfectly good use case scenario, and the source parameter would have to stay in order to support this use case scenario while still providing a different source.
[twitter-dev] Streaming API Help
I've recently been given access to Streaming API - and I was given access to the gardenhose - however it is not listed on the Streaming API Documentation Website (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API- Documentation). Is anyone aware of the documentation for this API call? I am specifically looking to use it to get tweets with certain text in them - however should I be using the status/filter API? (http:// apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#statuses/filter) Any help on examples of these two APIs (PHP) would be helpful. Thanks, Greg
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently been given access to Streaming API - and I was given access to the gardenhose - however it is not listed on the Streaming API Documentation Website (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API- Documentation). Is anyone aware of the documentation for this API call? http://stream.twitter.com/gardenhose.json I'm not sure, but i think that was the early version of the api, but still works. I am specifically looking to use it to get tweets with certain text in them - however should I be using the status/filter API? (http:// apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#statuses/filter) I think you should try filter api with track parameter $ curl http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json -uUser:Pass -d track=twitter Regards, -- ø Rolando Espinoza La fuente
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API Help
Greg, All users can access the streaming API at default access levels. Roles can give elevated access through the same URLs -- more statuses, more keywords, etc. Gardenhose access is additional access on the /1/statuses/ sample.format resource. You should use the track keyword on the /1/statuses/filter.format resource. If the default access level is insufficient, we can discuss upgrading your access to restricted track. Most apps can run fine without elevated access. You should not use /gardenhose.format resource. It works via backward compatibility mode and will go away shortly. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Services, Twitter Inc. On Sep 14, 12:10 pm, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently been given access to Streaming API - and I was given access to the gardenhose - however it is not listed on the Streaming API Documentation Website (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API- Documentation). Is anyone aware of the documentation for this API call? I am specifically looking to use it to get tweets with certain text in them - however should I be using the status/filter API? (http:// apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#statuses/filter) Any help on examples of these two APIs (PHP) would be helpful. Thanks, Greg
[twitter-dev] empty data + no error returned from friends/ids
We are seeing random, intermittent empty result sets from friends/ids, called without page or cursor arguments. These empty results return without error, and frequently correct themselves when tried again. Is this a known issue? What is the status of this issue?
[twitter-dev] Re: empty data + no error returned from friends/ids
We are seeing random, intermittent empty result sets from friends/ids, called without page or cursor arguments. These empty results return without error, and frequently correct themselves when tried again. Is this a known issue? What is the status of this issue? hi PJB. i don't know of this particular issue, unless it is the same issue as the non json responses that have been reported: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/decf7c323c10d869/ac2774091611be0b?lnk=gstq=html#ac2774091611be0b if so, we're actively working on it. if you think you have a different issue, if possible, could you send me a tcpdump of when that error occurs? thanks! -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team ra...@twitter.com | @raffi
